Members of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission have visited the Donetsk bus stop that was shelled on Thursday morning, mission deputy chief Alexander Hug has said.
He said at a press briefing in Kyiv an OSCE SMM patrol had arrived at the scene and was investigating. They had seen seven dead bodies lying near a damaged vehicle.
The mission has yet to draw its conclusions, which will be published later, Hug said.
According to preliminary reports seven people were killed (mainly women) when the bus stop was shelled on Thursday morning.
Media reports have said that at least 13 people were killed and dozens were injured in the attack.
The Defense Ministry said that the shell originated from an area where no military action was taking place.
“The place, where the trolley bus has been shelled, is located at a distance of more than 15 kilometers from the place where the Ukrainian forces are deployed. None of the destructions have been registered in this area so far. All these facts show that terrorists shelled the passenger transport from the city’s residential areas, controlled by the illegal armed formations,” said the report.
The military operation spokesman Andriy Lysenko reported that the bus stop was shelled by a mortar, which was moved across the city.
“According to the preliminary information, the terrorists committed the shell attack with a mortar, which was moving over the city. We emphasize that the closest positions of the anti-terrorist operation forces are deployed in the village of Pisky so that the tragedy site is beyond the actions of the Ukrainian artillery of the mentioned type”.
